0015 military time
0015 = 12:15 AM
0015 is quarter past 12 at night. With a colon it is 00:15.
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How to read 0015
0015 is in the first hour of the day, the 12 AM hour: replace 00 with 12 and add AM. So 0015 is 12:15 AM, 15 minutes after midnight.
Hour 00 reads as 12 on a 12-hour clock, and it is AM.
0015 falls in the small hours of the night: 15 minutes after midnight, 1% of the way through the day, with 23 hours and 45 minutes left until the next midnight.
How to say it
Pilots and air traffic controllers say each digit: “zero zero one five”. Off the radio, people usually read 0015 as two numbers.
Counting hours to and from 0015
Start and end times on a timesheet come down to this subtraction. The decimal column is the form many payroll systems want; the minutes to decimal chart covers every minute.
| Start | Length | Decimal |
|---|---|---|
| 0600 (day before) | 18 h 15 min | 18.25 |
| 0700 (day before) | 17 h 15 min | 17.25 |
| 0800 (day before) | 16 h 15 min | 16.25 |
| 0900 (day before) | 15 h 15 min | 15.25 |
| Add | Military | 12-hour |
|---|---|---|
| 1 h | 0115 | 1:15 AM |
| 2 h | 0215 | 2:15 AM |
| 4 h | 0415 | 4:15 AM |
| 8 h | 0815 | 8:15 AM |
| 10 h | 1015 | 10:15 AM |
| 12 h | 1215 | 12:15 PM |
0015Z: the same moment in other time zones
Written 0015Z, the time is in UTC, and the local clock depends on the zone and the season.
| Zone | Standard time | Summer time |
|---|---|---|
| US Eastern (New York) | 7:15 PM (previous day) UTC−5 | 8:15 PM (previous day) UTC−4 |
| US Central (Chicago) | 6:15 PM (previous day) UTC−6 | 7:15 PM (previous day) UTC−5 |
| US Mountain (Denver) | 5:15 PM (previous day) UTC−7 | 6:15 PM (previous day) UTC−6 |
| US Pacific (Los Angeles) | 4:15 PM (previous day) UTC−8 | 5:15 PM (previous day) UTC−7 |
| Alaska (Anchorage) | 3:15 PM (previous day) UTC−9 | 4:15 PM (previous day) UTC−8 |
| Hawaii (Honolulu) | 2:15 PM (previous day) UTC−10 | no change |
| UK (London) | 12:15 AM UTC+0 | 1:15 AM UTC+1 |
| Central Europe (Berlin) | 1:15 AM UTC+1 | 2:15 AM UTC+2 |
| India | 5:45 AM UTC+5:30 | no change |
| Japan and South Korea | 9:15 AM UTC+9 | no change |
| Australia East (Sydney) | 10:15 AM UTC+10 | 11:15 AM UTC+11 |
For a particular date and city, use the time zone converter, which applies the exact daylight saving dates.
Nearby military times
The full chart is on the military time page.